A brief – but not exhaustive – reminder of the facts:

622-627 – Ethnic cleansing of the Jews of Mecca and Medina

629 – 1st Alexandria Massacre (Egypt)

622-634 – Extermination of the 14 Jewish/Arab tribes

822-861 – The Islamic Empire passes a law requiring Jews to wear a yellow star

1106 – Ali Ibn Yousef Ibn Tashifin of Marrakech proclaims the death penalty for all local Jews, including his Jewish doctor and military general.

1033 – 1st pogrom of Fez (Marruecos)

1148 – Almohadin of Morocco gives Jews the choice between conversion or exile

1066 – Mass murder (Granada, Muslim-occupied Spain)

1165 – 1178 – Yemen’s Jews can choose between conversion and exile (via constitution)

1165 – The Chief Rabbi of the Maghreb is burned alive, Maimonides flees to Egypt.

1220 – Tens of thousands of Jews are murdered by Muslims after being accused of the Mongol invasion (Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Egypt)

1270 – Sultan Baibars of Egypt decides to burn all the Jews, after having dug a grave for them (he changes his mind at the last moment and takes all their wealth in exchange)

1276 – 2nd pogrom of Fez (Marruecos)

1385 – Khorasan Massacres (Iran)

1438 – 1st Mellah Massacre (ghettos) in North Africa

1465 – 3er pogrom of Fez (Marruecos)

1517 – 1st pogrom of Safed (Ottoman Palestine)

1517 – 1er pogrom of Hebrón (Ottoman Palestine)

1517 – Massacre of Ibn Ghazi (Ottoman Libya)

1577 – Massacre of Pessa’h (Ottoman Empire)

1588-1629 – Mahalay Pogroms (Iran)

1630-1700 – Jews in Yemen under a strict regime of “Dhimmis”

1660 – 2nd pogrom of Safed (Ottoman Palestine)

1670 – Expulsion of Mawza (Yemen)

1679-1680 – Massacres in Sana’a (Yemen)

1747 – Massacres in Mashhad (Iran)

1785 – Pogrom of Tripoli (Ottoman Libya)

1790-1792 – Pogrom of Tetuán (Marruecos)

1800 – Decree in Yemen prohibiting Jews from wearing new clothes or riding a donkey.

1805 – 1st pogrom of Algiers (Ottoman Algeria)

1808 – 2nd Mellah Massacre (ghettos) in North Africa

1815 – 2º pogrom of Algiers (Ottoman Algeria)

1820 – Massacre of Sahalu Lobiant (Ottoman Syria)

1828 – Pogrom of Baghdad (Ottoman Iraq)

1830 – Third pogrom of Algiers (Ottoman Algeria)

1830 – Ethnic cleansing of the Jews of Tabriz (Iran)

1834 – 2º pogrom of Hebrón (Ottoman Palestine)

1834 – Pogrom of Safed (Ottoman Palestine)

1839 – Massacre of the Jews of Mashadi (Iran)

1840 – Damascus Affair – Anti-Semitic accusation of ritual murder (Ottoman Syria)

1844 – 1st Cairo Massacre (Ottoman Egypt)

1847 – Dayr al-Qamar Pogrom (Ottoman Lebanon)

1847 – Ethnic cleansing of the Jews of Jerusalem (Ottoman Palestine)

1848 – 1st pogrom of Damascus (Ottoman Syria)

1850 – 1st pogrom of Aleppo (Ottoman Syria)

1860 – 2nd pogrom of Damascus (Ottoman Syria)

1862 – First pogrom of Beirut (Ottoman Lebanon)

1866 – Pogrom of Kuzguncuk (Ottoman Turkey)

1867 – Barfurush Massacre (Ottoman Türkiye)

1868 – Pogrom de Eyub

1869 – Tunis Massacre (Ottoman Tunisia)

1869 – Sfax Massacre (Ottoman Tunisia)

1864-1880 – Marrakech Massacre (Morocco)

1870 – 2nd Alexandria Massacre (Egypt)

1870 – 1st Istanbul pogrom (Ottoman Turkey)

1871 – 1st Massacre of Damanhur (Ottoman Egypt)

1872 – Edirne Massacre (Ottoman Türkiye)

1872 – 1st Smyrna pogrom (Ottoman Türkiye)

1873 – 2nd Massacre of Damanhur (Ottoman Egypt)

1874 – 2nd Smyrna pogrom (Ottoman Türkiye)

1874 – 2nd pogrom of Istanbul (Ottoman Turkey)

1874 – 2º Pogrom of Beirut (Ottoman Lebanon)

1875 – 2nd pogrom of Aleppo (Ottoman Syria)

1875 – Djerba Island Massacre (Ottoman Tunisia)

1877 – 3rd Massacre of Damanhur (Ottoman Egypt)

1877 – Mansoura Pogrom (Ottoman Egypt)

1882 – Homs Massacre (Ottoman Syria)

1882 – 3rd Alexandria Massacre (Ottoman Egypt)

1890 – 2nd Cairo Massacre (Ottoman Egypt)

1890 – 3rd Damascus Pogrom (Ottoman Syria)

1891 – 4th Massacre of Damanhur (Ottoman Egypt)

1897 – Assassinations in Tripoli (Ottoman Libya)

1890 – Tunisian Massacres (Ottoman Tunisia)

1901-1902 – 3rd Cairo Massacre (Ottoman Egypt)

1901-1907 – 4th Alexandria Massacre (Ottoman Egypt)

1903-1907 – Pogrom of Taza y Settat (Marruecos)

1903 – 1st Port Said Massacre (Ottoman Egypt)

1907 – Pogrom of Casablanca (Marruecos)

1908 – 2nd Port Said Massacre (Ottoman Egypt)

1910 – Shiraz Pogrom – Accused of ritual murder (Iran)

1912 – 4º pogrom of Fez (Marruecos)

1917 – Murders of Jews in Baghdad by the Ottomans

1918-1948 – Law prohibiting raising Jewish orphans (Yemen)

1920 – Irbid Massacres (Jordan)

1920-1930 – Arab riots (Compulsory Palestine)

1921 – First riots in Jaffa (Palestine under mandate)

1922 – Djerba massacres (Tunisia)

1928 – Jewish orphans sold into slavery and forcibly converted to Islam by the Muslim Brotherhood (Yemen)

1929 – Tercer pogrom de Hebrón (Palestine under mandate)

1929 – Third pogrom of Safed (Palestine under mandate)

1933 – 2nd Jaffa revolt (Palestine under mandate)

1934 – Pogroms in Thrace (Türkiye)

1936 – 3rd Jaffa Riots (Palestine under mandate)

1941 – Mass Murders – “Farhud” (Iraq)

1942 – Collaboration of the Grand Mufti with the Nazis

1938-1945 – Arab collaboration with the Nazis

1945 – 4th Cairo Massacre (Egypt)

1947 – Aden Pogrom

1947 – 3er Pogrom of Aleppo (Syria)

After 1948

1948 – Purge of the Jewish quarter of Damascus (Syria)

1948 – 1st Arab-Israeli war (1 in 100 Jews killed)

1948 – Progroms in Oudja and Jerada (Morocco)

1948 – Massacre of Jews in Libya

1955 – 3er Pogrom de Estambul

1956 – 1st Egyptian Inquisition against the Jews

1965 – 5th Pogrom of Fez (Marruecos)

1967 – Tunis riots (Tunisia)

And many more to come…

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  1. “And many more to come.” Does that mean that this list of massacres against the Jews will be updated with more modern time atrocities, or does that mean that the author is expecting more massacres to occur, as a matter of fact or expectation.
    I hope that it will be the authors first option I mentioned and not the latter.
    Is there a more detailed list that is available on line with in depth details of what occurred, witness accounts and sources of the information, paintings, drawings, photos, films, videos, stellas, frescoes, etc.
    I know that it would be a massive undertaking to put together such a record all in one place, but it could be used as a resource to inform the world of what Judaism has had to endure in a hostile world, and why modern day Israel is such an important country to the Jews in gathering in the diaspora, and why it is fighting so hard to defend its people against constant attacks.
    This list presented here specifies Arab attacks only. I was thinking of a much broader account from biblical times onwards.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. “And many more to come.” Does that mean that this list of massacres against the Jews will be updated with more modern time atrocities, or does that mean that the author is expecting more massacres to occur, as a matter of fact or expectation.
    I hope that it will be the authors first option I mentioned and not the latter.
    Is there a more detailed list that is available on line with in depth details of what occurred, witness accounts and sources of the information, paintings, drawings, photos, films, videos, stellas, frescoes, etc.
    I know that it would be a massive undertaking to put together such a record all in one place, but it could be used as a resource to inform the world of what Judaism has had to endure in a hostile world, and why modern day Israel is such an important country to the Jews in gathering in the diaspora, and why it is fighting so hard to defend its people against constant attacks.
    This list presented here specifies Arab attacks only. I was thinking of a much broader account from biblical times onwards.

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